Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
Trying to promote professional geekiness, encourage your fellows to turn hobbies into jobs, or at least hook up fellow fans with careers? Get your business involved.
Maybe it's your business, maybe it's someone you work for, but find ways to get your job directly involved in promoting the fan-to-pro lifestyle.
(The series keeps rolling on – believe me, I've got a lot of these).
So you want to help out present and future professional geeks to live their dream careers – so start helping them connect.
Yes, I'm charging you with the task of creating a Geek Networking Event.
We're here to encourage professional geekery, of taking your fantoms and making them your profession. But I'd like to take a moment to encourage the reverse.
Yes, I'd like to encourage you to think about how you can do your regular job in your hobbies (assuming there's enough of a difference).
Now we'd love to drag our hobbies into our jobs, so encouraging the reverse may seem different. Aren't we trying to encourage you to take your hobbies and make them into jobs?
So here's what I'm thinking . . .